Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Just blow mosquitoes

It is often said that mosquito is the provincial bird of Manitoba. And there are so many mosquitos in Manitoba. I am not going to say how bad and many they are.

Anyway, whenever I found one sucking on me, I smash it right away. But I realised (probably) none of Canadians does that. They just blow it away.

I was curious why. Is it because they spare even mosquitoes as part of the nature? If not, why?

One day seeing me smashing a mosquito on my arm, one of my friend told me not to do that. I of course asked why. He said if I smash one, the body fluids of it or the other’s blood sucked by it would come out on me, and that could spread a disease.

The reason was turned into a pure selfish one – and very reasonable and rational one.